Sensenbrenner Calls on Gorelick to Resign From Sept. 11 Commission

Tampa Bay on line (AP) ^ | 04-14-04 | The Associated Press

[aculeus]

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner called on Jamie Gorelick to resign from the Sept. 11 commission Wednesday, citing a memo she wrote as a deputy attorney general on separating counterintelligence from criminal investigations. "Scrutiny of this policy lies at the heart of the commission's work," said Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. "Ms. Gorelick has an inherent conflict of interest as the author of this memo and as a government official at the center of the events in questions."

On Tuesday, Attorney General John Ashcroft released the declassified 1995 memo from Gorelick containing instructions that "more clearly separate" counterintelligence from criminal investigations. He said the "wall" between counterintelligence and criminal investigations was a key impediment to terrorism probes before the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Landmark Legal Foundation, a conservative law firm, also has called on Gorelick to step down, citing the memo.

A phone message left with the Sept. 11 commission was not immediately returned Wednesday.

[cyncooper]

And nobody knew about this memo---it was classified. Sensenbrenner points out HE didn't know about it.

BTW, Rush on his show today said Clinton---Mr. "open and cooperative"---surely didn't offer this tidbit up to the commission in his testimony last week behind closed doors.

This single episode crystalizes that the commission is NOT after their stated mission. As Sensenbrenner, you and many others with brains note, she is sitting in judgement of actions (or lack of actions) due to her memo!

And then Kean has the nerve to say the question of her place on the panel is "silly", calls her (unbelievably) non-partisan and demands we "stay out of their business", after they created a spectacle of making their hearings public and demanding Rice appear.

BEAM ME UP

Everybody needs to contact this commission. I am going to tomorrow.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

See #219. The existence of the memo was public because Reno mentioned it in a public memo, just not the fine details.

I'll get around to posting this in every thread ;-)

[foreshadowed at waco]

Everytime I see this picture I think of the scary guy in Poltergeist...Slade Gorton is one strange looking character.

[cyncooper]

Technically public, but not widely known.

Sensenbrenner did say he, for example, did not know about this memo.

There have been murmurs from dem quarters that next on the Bush hit list was going to be to pound him about the Moussaoui investigation and the failure to get that search warrant and connect the dots. Ashcroft flat out stated it was due to this very memo that the warrant was not granted.

[My2Cents]

I agree with what you're saying, and while my comments were hyperbole, I think a goodly percentage -- an alarming percentage -- of voters are motivated by neurotic fear and hatred, fed by ignorance. I'm still awaiting the inevitable "psychiatric profile" biography of Bill Clinton, but from all that I've read, observed, and know from life's experience, he was and is one sick puppy, and is off the scale in terms of characteristics of personality disorder. Why was he adored by so many Americans? I think his sycophantic followers largely suffer from a personality disorder themselves.

I noted polling results through the entire Clinton nightmare which convinced me that around 42% of voters are susceptible to falling prey to a polished sociopath. And since you mentioned Baby Boomers, I'll volunteer that I am one, and that I believe my generation, in particular, is susceptible to this kind of hoodwinking, being on shaky emotional grounds themselves.

I also believe that since how one thinks can actually affect brain physiology, it's my conclusion that liberalism -- the liberal mindset, worldview, and ideology -- actually causes mental illness.

I'm heartened that some of Pres. Bush's most ardent supporters are those in the 18-25 year old cohort. If we can just get past this election cycle, and over the next four years have the Baby Boomers start to die off, we may be out of the woods.

[Woahhs]

My text to the chairman:

Dear Governor Kean,

I am writing to share my opinion that the presence of Ms. Gorelick on the commission, in light of the evidence given by AG Ashcroft, invalidates anything said commission finds.

So far as I'm concerned, my taxes are being wasted on this exercise.

Sincerely,

[Wolfstar]

I know who Slade is and always thought he was a dork. Judging by some of the people who get elected to the U.S. Senate from both major parties, I wonder what on earth the majority of voters in some states are thinking. I'm including my own state of California in that. After all, we've sent Boxer and Feinstein to the senate multiple times.

[Mr.Atos]

... you'll be voting for Kerry, then Dueler?!

I heard Larry Elders make an excellent point along the lines of Federal responsibilties. The Presidency has become a caretaker position for every progressive effort that has emerged since the New Deal, with little time left for the primary responsibility of that position - National Security. The first officer of that position was none other than the Commander of rebellion colonial forces for the very reason that the role of President is the General of the nation; manifested with the power to make snap decisions concerning the security of the nation in the maintenance of sovereignty.

Today, the role has been deluted to the point that our previous Grifter and Chief was propelled to office on the fantastically assinine slogan, "It's the economy, Stupid!" Only a generation of fools, so perverted to logic and detached from principle as to believe that anyone commands free markets, could succomb to the rhetoric of charlattans proclaiming that the President of the United States can be overly consumed with international issue related to national interests. As a result, we got a juvenile malcontent in the office, playing political games with domestic policy, making mortal mistakes with America lives abroad, destroying a decade of security policy, spending more time with an adolescent mistress in a dark corner of the oval office, than with his Secretary of State. In some ways, America did get exactly what it deserved on 911, but not for the reasons the liberals proclaim, and not for want of a better leader in the White House.

The slogan this time around should be, "It IS foreign policy, Jack-Ass!"... when it comes to issues of national security and the role of the President and frankly the federal government as a whole.

We The People, will take care of local and economic concerns... such as life, liberty, property and the welfare of our neighbors, and our sons, and our daughters.

Atos

[highlandbreeze]

I was listening to Mark Levin about 15 minutes ago and he said that Mr. Kean either released a statement or made a reply to someone saying that "we need to stay out of their business!" I believe it is in reply to Sen. Sensenbrenner's plea for Ms. Gorelick to recuse herself.

[Mr.Atos]

Oops! Sorry Dueler. I forgot to turn off the sarcasm with that Kerry crack!

I know you're a Kucinich supporter, anyway! (LOL!)

T

[My2Cents]

Solid and impressive comments. Very well said.

[Mo1]

Are you watching Gorelick and Gorton on Hardball right now

WHAT A DISGRACE!!

[Chunga]

Slade isn't capable of controlling his facial expressions.

[Quix]

Am beginning to believe that the puppet masters have been in charge of the membership lists of all such Commussions . . . Warren Commisssion . . .

May each one of them and every one of their complicit friends and relatives and stooges fall into their own pits ASAP.

treasonous, satanic idiots.

[Mo1]

Mr. Kean either released a statement or made a reply to someone saying that "we need to stay out of their business!" I believe it is in reply to Sen. Sensenbrenner's plea for Ms. Gorelick to recuse herself.

That is what Gorton just said on Hardball ..

[Woahhs]

saying that "we need to stay out of their business!"

Like Hell!

Let's Roll.

[Chunga]

Me too. Here it is:

Sirs and Madams:

As an American citizen interested in non-partisan findings by the 9/11 Commission, I demand the resignation of Jamie Gorelick.

Should her resignation fail as an option, I recommend the disbanding of the Commission and an apology to the citizens of The United States Of America for wasting their time and tax dollars. Ms. Gorelick's participation on this Committee constitutes a sham.

Very Truly Yours,

*** *****
*******, *******

[highlandbreeze]

OMG!!

What is wrong with these people?

[76834]

Agree......
Since this farce is on the people's dime it IS the peoples business.

[Quix]

I STRONGLY AGREE.

I believe it would be wise to have a constitutional ammendment that no atny could serve in any branch of government as a representative of the people or as a lobbyist with the following exceptions:

1) That the total of the attorney's serving in the jurisdiction concerned be 0.001% or less of their percentage ov the population of that jurisdiction.

2) That no atny would be allowed to run for any election without first having passed their 60th birthday and without 70% or more of their clients over the last 20 years ranking their (A) humility, (B) their honesty and integrity, (C) their fairness, and (D) their wisdom in the top 3% of all the individuals known to the client raters.

3) No atny would be allowed to serve more than two elected terms at any one level of government.